Jasminne Mendez
Jasminne Mendez | |
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Mendez at the 2022 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Occupation | Poet, short story writer, author |
| Language | English, Spanish |
| Alma mater | University of Houston |
| Notable works | Night Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays and Poems (2019), Island of Dreams (2013) |
| Notable awards | Best Young Adult Latino Focused Book |
| Website | |
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Jasminne Mendez is an Afro-Latino American author, poet, playwright, performer and educator. She is a co-founder and the program director for Tintero Projects. She is co-host on the poetry and writing podcast series, InkWell, a collaboration between Tintero Projects and Inprint Houston. Mendez is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop Peter Taylor Fellow and a Macondo and Voices of our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) alumni.